Topic: Did The UK Press Con A 104-Year-Old Woman Into Joining Twitter For Digg Bait?

[sam]

There’s a popular story on Digg right now about a 104-year-old British woman who uses Twitter. It’s an obvious headline: “World’s oldest Tweeter talks cuppas and casserole.” It’s Digg bait. But what’s worse is that if you examine the story closely, it looks like the UK press may have gotten the poor old lady to sign up for Twitter just for their story!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/16/did-the-uk-press-con-a-104-year-old-woman-into-joining-twitter-for-digg-bait/

[Rik]

No surprise there then, Sam. 

[sam]

nope - great example of the lengths British journalism goes to get an interesting story. Just a bit more foresight and no one would have noticed! Idiots.

[Rik]

Well, it makes a change from MPs expenses...

[Simon]

They must be running out of other things to print!

[Rik]

They're keeping it running nicely so far.

[Simon]

Mind you, the more that get suspended, the better! 

[Rik]

But by what part of their anatomy? 

[Simon]

I could think of a couple, but then, most of them haven't got any. 

[Rik]